Albert Blakeney Explained

Albert Blakeney
State:Maryland
District:2nd
Term Start1:March 4, 1901
Term End1:March 3, 1903
Term Start2:March 4, 1921
Term End2:March 3, 1923
Birth Date:September 28, 1850
Birth Place:Riderwood, Maryland, U.S.
Death Place:Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting Place:Baltimore Cemetery

Albert Alexander Blakeney (September 28, 1850 – October 15, 1924) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland from 1901 to 1903 and from 1921 to 1923.

Blakeney was born in Riderwood, Maryland. He learned the business of cotton manufacturing and established the large cotton-duck mills located in Franklinville, Maryland. Blakeney served as commissioner of Baltimore County, Maryland, from 1895 to 1899.

In 1900, Blakeney was elected as a Republican to Congress, serving one full term from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1903. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed his former business activities in Franklinville, and was again elected to Congress in 1920, serving another term from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1923. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1922, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, two years later. He is interred in the Baltimore Cemetery.